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1.4 – Note the status of minutes for the previous Council meetings per the GNSO Operating Procedures:
Draft minutes of the meeting of the GNSO Council on 18 February 2016 will be posted as approved on 6 March 2016.
Item 2: Opening Remarks / Review of Projects & Action List (10 (5 minutes)
2.1 – Review focus areas and provide updates on specific key themes / topics, to include review of Projects List and Action List3Overview of purpose of meeting (James Bladel)
Item 3: DISCUSSION – Final Report and Recommendations from the Cross-Community Working Group on Enhancing ICANN Accountability Final Report & Recommendations
Final Report & Recommendations (https://community.icann.org/x/8w2AAw) from the CCWG Accountability. The GNSO Council will discuss these recommendations during a Special Session next week (29 FEB) and in Marrakesh, and ultimately voting on the report during its Public Meeting on Wednesday, 9 MAR.
In the course of discussions over the IANA stewardship transition, the community had raised concerns about ICANN's accountability, given ICANN's historical contractual relationship with the United States government. The community discussions indicated that existing ICANN accountability mechanisms do not yet meet some stakeholders' expectations. As the US government (through the National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA)) has stressed that it expects community consensus on the transition, this gap between the current situation and stakeholder expectations needed to be addressed. This resulted in the creation of a Cross Community Working Group on Enhancing ICANN Accountability (CCWG-Accountability) of which the GNSO is a chartering organization.
In May 2015, the CCWG-Accountability published an initial proposal regarding its work on Work Stream 1 (meant to align with the timing of the IANA stewardship transition) for public comment. In August 2015, the CCWG-Accountability published its Second Draft Proposal for public comment. Following further community input, including from the ICANN Board, the CCWG-Accountability published a Third Draft Proposal for public comment on 30 November 2015.
Concurrently, the IANA Stewardship Transition Coordination Group (ICG) – the community group formed to consolidate the various proposals relating to the IANA stewardship transition submitted by the Internet communities affected by the issue – had announced after ICANN54 that it had completed its task. However, before the ICG can send its consolidated proposal to the NTIA via the ICANN Board, it needed to confirm with the Cross Community Working Group to Develop an IANA Stewardship Transition Proposal on Naming Related Functions (CWG-Stewardship) that its accountability requirements have been met by the Work Stream 1 recommendations from the CCWG-Accountability. The CWG-Stewardship had submitted a public comment to the CCWG-Accountability which noted that several of the CCWG-Accountability's draft recommendations adequately satisfied the CWG-Stewardship's requirements, but further work was merited on a number of other points.
Following a Special Meeting on 14 January 2016, the GNSO Council had approved a letter setting out its response to the recommendations in the Third Draft Proposal. This was sent to the CCWG-Accountability on 22 January. In response to the SO/AC and community input to its Third Draft Proposal, the CCWG-Accountability reworked some of its draft recommendations, resulting in a Final Supplemental Proposal that was sent to all its Chartering Organizations on 23 February (see Announcement
https://www.icann.org/news/blog/ccwg-accountability-delivers-report-to-chartering-organization).
The Supplemental Final Proposal on Work Stream 1 Recommendations has the consensus support of the CCWG-Accountability with five minority statements (submitted as of 19 February) from members recorded for Chartering Organization consideration (see Appendix A of the Final Proposal). Members have a last opportunity to revise, retract or add minority statements based on the final compromise reached within the CCWG-Accountability, and a revised Appendix A is expected to be circulated on 25 February.
Here the Council will discuss initial feedback to the Supplemental Final Proposal from its Stakeholder Groups and Constituencies (including any remaining concerns that may have been identified by any group) and any further necessary actions that need to be taken prior to GNSO’s formal consideration of the CCWG-Accountability’s final recommendations. The Council vote is scheduled to take place at ICANN55, in time for the CCWG-Accountability to send its Final Supplemental Proposal on Work Stream 1 Recommendations to the ICANN Board so as to meet the NTIA timeline.
3.1 – Update from Thomas Rickert
3.2 – Comments from GNSO members & participants to the CCWG
3.3 – Updates from Council members on work occurring in SG/Cs
3.4 – Open discussion
3.5 – Next steps and preparation for Council vote in Marrakech
Item 4:Any Other Business (5 Minutes)
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